[QuadList] Repost for re-subscribed members: Happy Birthday, NBC Videotape Central, Burbank

Ted Langdell ted at tedlangdell.com
Sun Apr 29 22:28:37 CDT 2012


Reposting for members who were re-subscribed after the original post.  Apologies for double-post if you remained subscribed.

Ted

On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:

> Yesterday, Saturday, April 28, 2012 marked the 54th anniversary of the dedication of Videotape Central at NBC Burbank. The tape facility inside 3000 West Alameda (at Olive Ave.) cost $1.5 million in 1957-58 dollars.
> 
> NBC began time-zone delay from the Burbank tape facility when Daylight Savings Time kicked in. 
> 
> The facility included one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA Labs hetrodyne electronics.
> 
> Soon, three more RCA Broadcast Color Recorders were at work.
> 
> Pre-recording programs in Burbank happened later, among them the Fred Astaire specials, and other programs recorded initially with the RCA Labs color process.
> 
> Ted
> 
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary
> 

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